ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orlando restaurant won a significant court victory against Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday with a federal appeals panel rejecting a Florida law aimed at keeping children out of drag shows, saying it was overly broad and likely unconstitutional.

Judges sided with Hamburger Mary’s, a drag-themed eatery, in a 2-1 decision. The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A coalition of 20 states filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration Tuesday seeking to stop policies to withhold grants for transportation and homeland security in jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Tuesday during a conference call with ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order promising to dramatically and quickly cut the cost of drugs in the U.S.

But experts say Americans shouldn’t hold their breath, as they are skeptical about the order’s legality and ultimate impact.

“We are going to pay the lowest price there is in the world,” Trump said at a White...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Republican-led Senate Committee on Tuesday rejected a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania less than a week after it passed the Democratic-led House, and the Senate Republican leader subsequently cast doubt on whether the issue could move forward.

The Senate Law & Justice Committee voted 7-3 Tuesday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors filed criminal charges Tuesday against Jillian Lauren Shriner, a bestselling author who is married to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, following an incident last month where she was wounded by police after allegedly shooting at them from her backyard.

The author, who publishes under the last name ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Next time you’re stuck in traffic driving to Sacramento from Davis on Interstate 80, keep your eyes peeled for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s photo.

Well, not a real photo. It’s an AI-generated image of the governor, laughing against a backdrop of a congested freeway.

The billboard, designed and paid for by state workers, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore signed a series of public safety and health bills Tuesday, including legislation to protect developmentally disabled people during interactions with law enforcement.

Moore, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson, all Democrats, signed legislation allowing people with non-apparent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The resentencing hearing for brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez kicked off Tuesday morning with emotional testimony from family members, one of whom testified in court that they should be freed from prison for the shotgun killing of their parents more than 30 years ago.

Annmaria Baralt, often wiping away her tears, testified that ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After the budget deal between the Florida House and Senate blew up last week, House Speaker Daniel Perez said he’s willing to consider other ideas beyond a sales tax cut to reduce state spending.

Though Perez said he would negotiate, he criticized the Senate president for “breaking our word” and accused Gov. Ron ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar on Tuesday moved to try to force a House vote on the articles of impeachment that he filed two weeks ago targeting President Donald Trump.

Thanedar, a Democrat from Detroit in his second term, stood on the House floor on Tuesday afternoon in a largely empty House chamber and indicated that he was offering ...Read more

ATLANTA — Congressional Republicans’ proposed cuts to health care, unveiled this week, lay the groundwork for thousands of Georgians on subsidized private insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act to lose their coverage and go uninsured.

Some of the cuts are made directly in the bill, such as revoking ACA insurance from about 21,000 ...Read more

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Donald Trump agreed to a set of commercial agreements with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in what amounts to the largest economic pact ever signed by the two countries, the White House said, hailing a new era in a partnership that had been fraught in recent years.

On the first day of the president’s visit to the ...Read more

Immigration interviews are suddenly moved up, sometimes by phone, or with last-minute notice by letter. People in legal limbo and with deportation orders are caught off guard. They show up thinking it’s just another annual check-in, a routine interview. Instead, they’re arrested and deported within days.

Advocates and immigration attorneys ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams pointed to his dyslexia as the reason he couldn’t unlock his phone for federal investigators who requested access amid a corruption investigation into political contributions to the mayor’s campaign, he said Tuesday.

“Hey, folks, I’m dyslexic. I couldn’t get numbers. That’s a byproduct,” the mayor ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman touted a pledge for $1 trillion in commercial deals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, a staggering figure that doesn’t quite stand up to scrutiny.

“With the help of the people of the Middle East, the people in this room, partners throughout the region, the golden age of ...Read more

A Massachusetts college student died this week after falling from a hotel balcony during a senior class trip in the Bahamas.

Gaurav Jaisingh was with fellow Bentley University students in their room at the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort when he fell Sunday night around 10 p.m.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force said he was found unresponsive on a...Read more

WASHINGTON — The California attorney general’s office said Tuesday it will seek a preliminary injunction in its case challenging President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, a move that could result in a court order freezing sweeping import duties on worldwide products that have rocked the global economy and U.S. markets since last month.

The...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’ll lift U.S. sanctions against Syria following the toppling of former President Bashar Assad, a boost to the war-ravaged country’s ambitions of rejoining the international community.

“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” Trump said in an...Read more

Stanford University students and faculty launched a hunger strike Monday, joining a broader statewide movement calling for universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel in protest of the ongoing war in Gaza.

At least 12 students and three faculty members are participating in the hunger strike, which also calls for local authorities ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Is spray painting graffiti on a Tesla to criticize Elon Musk a valid form of protest — or domestic terrorism?

President Donald Trump and his administration have denounced widespread attacks on Tesla vehicles, charging stations and dealerships.

Musk has faced ire in recent months for his role in the U.S. Department of ...Read more